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Bytemobile Appoints Telecom Industry Veteran Hugh Barton as Vice President and General Manager, North America

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Posted 19 November 2008 @ 06:00 am ET

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Bytemobile, Inc., theglobal leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators, todayannounced the appointment of Hugh Barton as vice president and generalmanager, North America. Barton will be responsible for all of the company'ssales activities and customer relationships in the United States and Canada.

According to Chetan Sharma Consulting, the U.S. wireless data market grew37.5% year over year in the third quarter of 2008, reaching $8.8 billion intotal revenue. Bytemobile's current customers in North America include leadingnetwork operators such as AT&T, Alltel and Sprint Nextel.

"With more than 260 million wireless subscribers in the U.S. alone, NorthAmerica is a strategic geography for us," said Hatim Tyabji, executivechairman of Bytemobile. "Network operators throughout the region haveexperienced a surge in mobile data usage, creating new requirements for smartoptimization and traffic control and new opportunities for customized dataservices. As a seasoned veteran of the telecommunications industry, HughBarton is well-suited to lead Bytemobile's North American sales and servicesorganization in delivering innovative solutions which enable our customers tocost-effectively meet consumer demand for the Mobile Internet."

Hugh Barton has over 20 years of management experience in sales, businessdevelopment, marketing, strategic planning, and consulting. Before joiningBytemobile, he was vice president of North America Sales, Global CommercialIndustries, at Unisys Corporation, where he was responsible for strategicaccounts such as AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Cox, and Comcast. Previously, he heldseveral management positions at Hewlett-Packard Company, including managingdirector, BT Alliance, responsible for HP's relationship with British Telecom.

Barton also served in the Information, Communications and EntertainmentPractice at KPMG Consulting and the Communications Industry Group atAccenture. As a partner at Washington Equity Partners, he structured privateequity transactions for wireless telecommunications companies in emergingmarkets. Barton holds a M.B.A. degree from the College of William & Mary and aB.A. degree in History from the University of Virginia, and is certified as aChartered Director by the U.K. Institute of Directors.

About Bytemobile, Inc.

Bytemobile is a tier-one provider of integrated mobile internet solutionswhich enable wireless network operators to deliver value-added data servicesto consumers on mass-market cellular phones, feature phones, smartphones, andlaptops. Bytemobile(R) solutions are installed in the networks of 100operators in 54 countries and 12 of the world's top 15 tier-one operators.Customers include AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, KDDI, KPN, Orange,Orascom, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Telecom Italia Mobile, Telefonica O2,TeliaSonera, Vodafone, and WILLCOM. Bytemobile is a privately held companywith regional sales and support offices in Wokingham, U.K.; Dubai, U.A.E.;Tokyo, Japan; Beijing, China; Singapore; and Sydney, Australia; and researchand development centers in Mountain View, California; Patras, Greece;Champaign, Illinois; and Belfast, Northern Ireland. To learn more aboutBytemobile, visit the company's website at http://www.bytemobile.com.

Bytemobile and the Bytemobile logo are trademarks of Bytemobile, Inc. andmay be registered in some jurisdictions. All other product or service namesare the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE Bytemobile, Inc.


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